The SalesPOP! The podcast is one of the world’s top-ranked sales podcasts, ranking in the top 2% of 3.3 million podcasts globally. Hosted by John Golden, Amazon bestselling author and globally recognized sales thought leader, the show features short, actionable conversations with the world’s leading sales experts, authors, and practitioners.
With over 1,500 episodes and counting, we cover everything from sales enablement and pipeline management to AI-powered selling, leadership development, and CRM strategy. Each episode distills decades of real-world selling experience into insights you can apply immediately.
Podcast interview with Nicolas Vandenberghe who is the co-founder & CEO Chili Piper. He started selling newspapers in the streets of Paris in high school, studied Maths at Ecole Polytechnique then Business at Stanford GSB, started and sold 3 tech companies with up to 65 employees and $11M in revenues, ran Sales for a $2Bn ... »
Podcast interview with Rachel Lynn Cipriano who is the CEO at Magnificent Resilience and plays the role of a Speaker, Advisor, Coach, Author, and Leadership Catalyst. She speaks to organizations committed to building leaders of excellence and deeper significance. She emphasizes those who are great maintaining a commitment to integrity and service. She communicates her ... »
If you asked a room full of 100 CEO’s if they thought that training was important, you’d likely get an almost unanimous vote “yes.” However, if you asked how many of those CEOs were actually investing the time and the budget into training, you would not get such a strong response rate. This is to ... »
Podcast interview with Thomas Druyen who is a German sociologist and director of two institutes at Sigmund Freud Private University in Vienna. In addition to his work as a speaker and author – especially on philosophical and contemporary topics – Druyen focuses his research on the psychological and neural conditions as well as the accompanying ... »
Many small business owners think that if they just work a little harder, things will get better and their business will grow. But in reality, working harder is not always the answer. It can actually run people directly into the ground if the work is not the right kind of work. This is especially a ... »
Podcast interview with Christine Perakis who is the Business Growth Architect, Executive Coach, and 360o Transformation Expert. For more than two decades, Christine Perakis, Esq. has navigated through negotiation tables, board rooms, classrooms, and the tempestuous open seas. As a lawyer, C-Level executive, investor, trainer, and boat captain, Christine discovered an essential truth applicable to ... »
The old way of leading doesn’t work anymore. With where we’re at in the world today, the standard hierarchical approach of one, or few, leaders at the top, leading down to the masses, isn’t as effective or accepted as it used to be. This method is coming to an end, and leaders need to find ... »
Podcast interview with Amy C. Edmondson who is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School, a chair established to support the study of human interactions that lead to the creation of successful enterprises that contribute to the betterment of society. Edmondson has been recognized by the biannual Thinkers50 global ranking ... »
Ilana Golan went from F-16 flight instructor and the first female squadron commander in the Israeli Air Force to one of Intel’s youngest hires and Silicon Valley VPs, contributing to a $300 million exit along the way. In this episode she joins John Golden to unpack what mid- and late-career professionals must do right now ... »
Chad Coe, Founder of Coe Financial Group, joins John Golden to share a giver-first sales philosophy he calls “people tithing” — a habit of sharing referrals, connections, and attention before ever asking for business. Chad has built his financial advisory practice on this principle since 1997, and in this Expert Insight Interview, he explains why the ... »
Companies are racing to adopt AI, but most are layering it over outdated structures and broken processes — guaranteeing disappointing returns. In this Expert Insight Interview, Jürgen Dauk, Transformation Consultant and Founder of The Leadership OS, joins John Golden to explain why AI without organizational transformation always fails. Drawing on 25 years of senior leadership, ... »
Pricing rarely gets the strategic attention it deserves inside most companies — most teams set it by surveying competitors and landing somewhere in the middle. Ann Padley, Senior Partner at Untapped Pricing and co-author of The Pricing Sprint, 12 Steps to Unlock the Power of Pricing, joins host John Golden on Sales POP! to unpack ... »
Travis Hahler is Senior Director of Global Strategy & Transformation at Salesforce and the founder of The Neurological Nomad. With a background fusing EEG research, Harvard neuropsychology, and an MBA — plus over 100 transformations behind him — Travis joins John Golden to reframe one of the hardest problems in leadership: why well-funded, well-communicated change ... »
Brad Farris, founder of Anchor Advisors and a 20-year executive leadership coach, joins Sales POP! to unpack the wall most agency and consulting founders hit between $1M and $2M — and the specific moves that take a service firm into the profitable $3M to $5M range. Brad has worked side-by-side with hundreds of owners and ... »
